They're young... they're in love
... and they kill people.
This film was revolutionary in every way, including a tagline that is both menacing and playful, the perfect tone for the film.
My dad tells a story about the first time he saw Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and the rage he felt when he found he couldn't help breaking down and crying after the film's horrific climax. He had been toyed with plain and simple by director Arthur Penn, and he knew it. Nowadays he respects it as a classic, but I try to imagine what that must have felt like, an honest fury because you have been manipulated to a point beyond control of your emotions, perhaps beyond recognition of your principles.
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